Aaron Douglas (1899-1979)
Aaron Douglas was a painter and graphic artist whose association with the Harlem Renaissance.
Douglas played a leading role in the Harlem Renaissance. He was a major figure in the Afro-American art.https://www.biography.com/people/aaron-douglas-39794

Aaron Douglas, From Slavery through Reconstruction (奴隷制から復興まで), 1934

Hale Woodruff (1900-1980)
Hale Woodruff was known for his murals, paintings, and prints. He is a first generation artist of the New Negro Movement. He was understanding He understood cubism deeply while he was living in France. His early work reflects the influence of cubism. Then Woodruff studied in Mexico with Diego Rivera.https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/hale-woodruff-1900-1980

Norman Lewis (1909-1979)
Norman Lewis was a painter, and teacher who was associated with abstract expressionism. He was a founding member of the Spiral Group. This group was a New York–based African American artists’ collective active from 1963 to 1965.
He inspired by sources as diverse as music, nature, Chinese, Japanese, and African art, and modern painters from Wassily Kandinsky to Mark Tobey, Lewis freely experimented with varying approaches to abstraction.https://americanart.si.edu/artist/norman-lewis-2921https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Lewis_(artist)

Norman Lewis, Twilight Sounds, 1947

Romare Bearden (1911-1988)Romare Bearden worked with many types of media. He is best known for collages and photomontages. He was a founding member of the Harlem-based art group known as the Spiral. He studied Art History and Philosophy at the Sorbonne in 1950 and was the author or coauthor of several books.https://www.moma.org/artists/412

Romaire Beardon, The Dove, 1964

Felrath Hines (1913-1993)
Born in Indianapolis Indiana. Felrath Hines was an early and prominent member of the Spiral Group. Hines joined one in 1963. His later geometric abstractions embrace the universal language of pure shapes and colors. His later geometric abstractions embrace the universal language of pure shapes and colors.https://americanart.si.edu/artist/felrath-hines-2231

Harold Cousins (1916-1992)Harold Cousins was a sculptor. He worked in a many types of mediums including steel, stone, wood, and terra cotta and in a variety of styles from realism to abstraction.http://www.artnet.com/artists/harold-cousins/

Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000)
Jacob Lawrence was a painter known for the life of African-Americans. He was also an educator. Lawrence is among the best-known 20th-century African-American painters.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Lawrence

Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series, Panel 58: In the North the African American had more educational opportunities, 1940-1941.

Edward Clark (1926-)
He is an abstract expressionist painter. He is one of the earliest painters who developed shaped canvas in 1950s.http://artistedclark.com/

Edward Clark, Winter Bitch, 1959

Sam Middleton (1927-2015)
Sam Middleton was a mixed-media artist. He was born in New York City and grew up in Harlem, NY. He lived in Mexico and Sweden and eventually the Netherlands.
Middleton left New York briefly at the height of World War II, joining the Merchant Marines in 1944 when he was just 17 years old, but returned to his native city in the early 1950s. Middleton initially frequented the Cedar Tavern and formed close friendships with New York School artists including Franz Kline, Jackson Pollack, and Robert Motherwell. His circle of beat writer and artist friends soon gravitated to The Five Spot Café on the Lower East Side where jazz greats Cecil Taylor, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, and Charlie Parker performed nightly.https://gpcontemporary.com/exhibition/14/press_release/